{"id":422646,"date":"2015-05-25T20:18:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/?p=422646"},"modified":"2015-05-25T20:18:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T17:18:01","slug":"bloomberg-view-the-eu-is-using-eastern-partnership-as-a-buffer-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/bloomberg-view-the-eu-is-using-eastern-partnership-as-a-buffer-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg View: The EU is using Eastern Partnership as a buffer area"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Leonid Bershidsky, in his article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-05-22\/eu-s-cynical-plan-to-use-eastern-europe\" target=\"_blank\">BloombergView<\/a>, described\u00a0the Summit of\u00a0the Eastern Partnership from Riga as a fail for the countries such as Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia, as they wanted to become closer to the European Union.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After two days, the Eastern Partnership summit that ended in Riga on Friday yielded a 13-page declaration and one insight: The European Union\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have much to offer to the six former Soviet republics to its east.<\/p>\n<p>Yet all involved understand the EU has made no specific promises\u00a0on the timing of possible membership, or even on setting a date for citizens of Georgia and Ukraine to be granted visa-free entry to Europe. Only Moldova, population 3.5 million, has managed to satisfy EU inspectors and have the short-term visa requirement waived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bershidsky stressed out that the Eastern Partnership is not a priority for the EU at the moment, because of Russia&#8217;s aggressive defense policy in former USSR countries, because of the frozen conflicts such as Transnistria in Moldova and Donbass in Ukraine and because of Europe&#8217;s biggest economic crisis, Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Leonid Bershidsky, in his article for BloombergView, described\u00a0the Summit of\u00a0the Eastern Partnership from Riga as a fail for the countries such as Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia, as they wanted to become closer to the European Union. After two days, the Eastern Partnership summit that ended in Riga on Friday yielded a 13-page declaration and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":422463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Leonid Bershidsky, in his article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-05-22\/eu-s-cynical-plan-to-use-eastern-europe\" target=\"_blank\">BloombergView<\/a>, described\u00a0the Summit of\u00a0the Eastern Partnership from Riga as a fail for the countries such as Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia, as they wanted to become closer to the European Union.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After two days, the Eastern Partnership summit that ended in Riga on Friday yielded a 13-page declaration and one insight: The European Union\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have much to offer to the six former Soviet republics to its east.<\/p>\n<p>Yet all involved understand the EU has made no specific promises\u00a0on the timing of possible membership, or even on setting a date for citizens of Georgia and Ukraine to be granted visa-free entry to Europe. Only Moldova, population 3.5 million, has managed to satisfy EU inspectors and have the short-term visa requirement waived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bershidsky stressed out that the Eastern Partnership is not a priority for the EU at the moment, because of Russia&#8217;s aggressive defense policy in former USSR countries, because of the frozen conflicts such as Transnistria in Moldova and Donbass in Ukraine and because of Europe&#8217;s biggest economic crisis, Greece.<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/bloomberg-view-the-eu-is-using-eastern-partnership-as-a-buffer-area\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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